REMOTE BIRTH, TIMOR LESTE - Mathew Lynn // Photographer

Remote Birth, Timor Leste Marcellina is one of hundreds of Timor Leste's dedicated traditional...

Eliza, 25, lays in labour on the floor of her...

Although a normal childbirth can be excruciatingly painful and extremely...

Traditional birth attendant Marcellina realises that Eliza's baby is in...

Marcellina prepares to attempt to correction of the breech position...

Eliza's husband watches on with concern as he begins to...

Eliza's family comfort her by rubbing oil on her stomach...

Marcellina manages to correct the breech birth and delivers the...

Initially, the baby did not breathe but had a pulse....

Marcellina breathes for baby through a thing strip of gauze...

Noleberta's cries cut through the anxious air that filled the...

Marcellina cares for newborn Noleberta while Eliza lays in pain...

Eliza breastfeeds and bonds with Noleberta shortly after giving birth. ...

Five years later, three generations of the family pose for...

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